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If you're interested in spreadsheets, don't miss sc, the Standard Unix Spreadsheet™ which nobody has ever heard of (the un-Googleable name doesn't help). It was

If you're interested in spreadsheets, don't miss sc, the Standard Unix Spreadsheet™ which nobody has ever heard of (the un-Googleable name doesn't help). It was originally written by James Gosling in the 1980s and is in Debian. It runs in a terminal and uses vi keybindings: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699

aidos 11y ago
That's the one! I've used it before and was struggling to remember the name the other day.
- pbhjpbhj 11y ago
  FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" that searches for binaries based on keywords in their descriptions. My problem is when I need it I can never remember the name, just spent 10 minutes search on variations of "advogato". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_%28Unix%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_%28Unix%29 : "Often a wrapper for the "man -k" command, the apropos command is used to search all manual pages for the string specified. This is often useful if one knows the action that is desired, but does not remember the exact command or page name." TBH learning now that "man -k" exists (I don't think I can have "man man"-ed in the last decade) is probably a lot more useful for me.
  - justincormack 11y ago
    Except at least in Ubuntu they basically dont work eg man -k MANOPT should find the man(1) man page and doesnt on my system.
    - McElroy 11y ago
      There's nothing broken about that. If you want to do full text search, do `man -K` instead of `man -k`. E.g. man -K MANOPT Works for me on Ubuntu 14.04, though slowly so and I still have to ask the pager to search for it within the manpage which is opened. Because of this, I read the manpages when I know where to find what I'm looking for but otherwise just Google. A far more severe problem IMO is the fact that many Linux distros ship without manpages in their default installs.
  - DougMerritt 11y ago
    > FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" Ouch, too much Debian credit, too much Linux credit, even. That's by Bill Joy circa 1977, so it's a BSD Unix thing, widely adopted everywhere else. Man -k was AT&T's reaction to apropos, IIRC. There is a certain logic to using "man" to search man pages.
oever 11y ago
Is there a more recent version than 7.16 from 2002? http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/ http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/
- beefsack 11y ago
  The package version in Arch is 7.16, so I assume it's the latest.
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howeyc 11y ago
Indeed. In fact I liked it so much that I wrote a program very similar that can read/write such files on Windows[1]. I couldn't find how to compile the original on Windows. The file format is pretty simple. At least for the spreadsheets I create. As a side note, I love text-based (or extremely simple) file formats. So easy to write tools for them. [1] http://github.com/howeyc/sc http://github.com/howeyc/sc
- ape4 11y ago
  Yes, what a very nice format: # This data file was generated by the Spreadsheet Calculator. # You almost certainly shouldn't edit it. let A0 = 45 let A1 = 56 let A2 = @sum(A0:A1)
  - hayd 11y ago
    pffft, xml is obviously a better choice for a serious spreadsheet engine... \s
franek 11y ago
There is a continuation to sc, called scim: https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim

aidos 11y ago

That's the one! I've used it before and was struggling to remember the name the other day.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" that searches for binaries based on keywords in their descriptions. My problem is when I need it I can never remember the name, just spent 10 minutes search on variations of "advogato". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_%28Unix%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apropos_%28Unix%29 : "Often a wrapper for the "man -k" command, the apropos command is used to search all manual pages for the string specified. This is often useful if one knows the action that is desired, but does not remember the exact command or page name." TBH learning now that "man -k" exists (I don't think I can have "man man"-ed in the last decade) is probably a lot more useful for me.
- justincormack 11y ago
  Except at least in Ubuntu they basically dont work eg man -k MANOPT should find the man(1) man page and doesnt on my system.
  - McElroy 11y ago
    There's nothing broken about that. If you want to do full text search, do `man -K` instead of `man -k`. E.g. man -K MANOPT Works for me on Ubuntu 14.04, though slowly so and I still have to ask the pager to search for it within the manpage which is opened. Because of this, I read the manpages when I know where to find what I'm looking for but otherwise just Google. A far more severe problem IMO is the fact that many Linux distros ship without manpages in their default installs.
- DougMerritt 11y ago
  > FWIW on Debian-like systems there is "apropos" Ouch, too much Debian credit, too much Linux credit, even. That's by Bill Joy circa 1977, so it's a BSD Unix thing, widely adopted everywhere else. Man -k was AT&T's reaction to apropos, IIRC. There is a certain logic to using "man" to search man pages.

oever 11y ago

Is there a more recent version than 7.16 from 2002? http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/ http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/

beefsack 11y ago
The package version in Arch is 7.16, so I assume it's the latest.

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howeyc 11y ago

Indeed. In fact I liked it so much that I wrote a program very similar that can read/write such files on Windows[1]. I couldn't find how to compile the original on Windows. The file format is pretty simple. At least for the spreadsheets I create. As a side note, I love text-based (or extremely simple) file formats. So easy to write tools for them. [1] http://github.com/howeyc/sc http://github.com/howeyc/sc

ape4 11y ago
Yes, what a very nice format: # This data file was generated by the Spreadsheet Calculator. # You almost certainly shouldn't edit it. let A0 = 45 let A1 = 56 let A2 = @sum(A0:A1)
- hayd 11y ago
  pffft, xml is obviously a better choice for a serious spreadsheet engine... \s

franek 11y ago

There is a continuation to sc, called scim: https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim